cob

The grains, each of which is about the bulk of the largest marrowfat pea, are placed all round a stalk, which goes up the middle, and this little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.

Examining the cob of the plants now in seed, I found them very full of fine seed.

Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast.

In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order….

Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.

The cob was a cracknel or simnel made of fine flour.

The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….

If he comes to you riding a cob…

…he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….

I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.

The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.

Perhaps though in time one may make them to yield, But 'tis pretty'st Cob-Castle e'er I beheld.

Who can make the worm a cob to thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and make the hills as chaff.

[…] but he does not say whether the nobleman is a mulatto or half-caste, or what advantage is to be derived from purchasing a cob belonging to "a dark-brown nobleman."